Christophe Thinks Out Loud

12:03 am - Today's Brevity

• 10:22 At the Mountains of Madness: bit.ly/8TpG1T #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 11:48 The fact that you wish me to buy something from you is not a matter of urgency for me. #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 12:24 You get cynical, bitter, feel like it's all crap. Then, something bit.ly/5iLKLj comes along, and it's all better. #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 14:18 Someone build this. Please. bit.ly/kqPdt #

12:01 am - Today's Brevity

• 08:19 Google employees read your docs to decide if they can be shared. The future of computing! bit.ly/6n4vdF (via @Richard_Kadrey) #

12:01 am - Today's Brevity

• 13:08 Dubai government to investors: "Suckers." bit.ly/544wQG #
• 20:49 I just got email spam from the GOP. Fascinating. #

12:00 am - Today's Brevity

• 12:19 I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: book, people, movie - w33.us/23pj #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 13:48 Today is Contract Day! And iPhone Weird Crash Day! #
• 14:44 Today is "Buy Nothing Day," not "Be Insufferably Smug to Local Merchants That You Are Buying Nothing Day." Kthxbye. #
• 16:02 Good thing Dubai World didn't take over all those US ports, huh? Clever of us to make them sell them onto a stable company like AIG, huh? #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 22:04 Radio Shack is open on Thanksgiving. No one buys stuff there any other day, maybe Thanksgiving will be different. bit.ly/7dGQiw #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 16:45 I want realtime Google Street View so I can see if El Tonayense is parked at Best Buy *right now*. #
• 23:00 "I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you..." tumblr.com/xul48sxrb #
• 23:15 "Marketing is not bragging, and touting one’s wares is not evil." - Jeffrey Zeldman tumblr.com/xul48t7ps #

12:00 am - Today's Brevity

• 15:38 "If the Manhattan Project Worked Like My College Group Projects Do." bit.ly/1lszGJ #
• 20:02 One of the best takedowns of Ayn Rand, ever: bit.ly/43bgGo #

03:36 pm - It's Really Just About Abortion

"She got more help in a crisis concerning newborn babies from the PHONE COMPANY than from the Catholic Church."

01:04 am - Today's Brevity

• 11:18 Mercurial is your smart friend who likes to explain things to you. Git is your smart coworker who sighs and rolls his eyes. #
• 14:32 "Political conservatism is Utopianism for the powerful." bit.ly/OrTx #

12:02 am - Today's Brevity

• 20:28 Watching the scariest movie I know: Lost Highway. #

12:03 am - Today's Brevity

• 14:36 You know something? The Bay Bridge being unexpected closed really sucks. #
• 15:50 Security fail! bit.ly/165Msa (via @Richard_Kadrey) #

12:03 am - Today's Brevity

• 17:48 Watching this video, I am deeply proud of a country that would elect such a man as a United States Senator: bit.ly/1h0qZY #

12:04 am - Today's Brevity

• 13:30 Opponents of gay marriage literally stop making sense: bit.ly/17mQvD #
• 15:01 @heatherlyshaw Our washer has a "sanitary" setting. The icon for it is a diaper. #

12:00 am - Today's Brevity

• 21:46 "Cardboard." Fun stop-motion animation: bit.ly/3kPPAl #

12:01 am - Today's Brevity

• 11:50 The Daily Mash is like The Onion, when The Onion was funny. "Rugby Player Banned for Wrong Kind of Violence." bit.ly/3VIb31 #
• 12:16 @ShineLouise Travel safely! Knock 'em dead in Berlin! #
• 17:04 @TonyComstock @audaciaray I just render everything out in Uncompressed-10. Makes motion graphics much, much nicer. #
• 17:05 @TonyComstock @audaciaray Once I have the footage captured, that's the last it ever sees of the DV codec. #
• 17:15 @TonyComstock Yeah, if the original is in DV50 or DV100, I don't bother with the uncompressed conversion. I just don't like re-encoding. #

12:01 am - Today's Brevity

• 16:55 The absolute last, definitive word on the Roman Polanski case: bit.ly/19Zxh1 #
• 21:04 Before asking if something is art, very carefully consider: Why do you need to know? #